ZenWiFi Whole-Home Tri-band Mesh WiFi 6E System (ET9 2PK), Coverage up to 5,500 sq.ft, 7800Mbps, new 6GHz band, AiMesh, Lifetime Free Internet Security, Parental Control, EasySetup, Instant Guard

I add this ZenWifi to my existing ASUS GT-AXE16000 as a mesh node. It is ethernet backhauled, but works great. Setup took about 5min and no issues after that. Now each floor of my house has a strong 6E signal.

I've been very happy with this setup since I used it to replace my older ASUS router that I was using and had for over 5 years. This combo has allowed me to have very good to excellent wi-fi reception throughout our 225+ year old house from second floor to basement. The Wi-Fi 6 can be a bit finicky at times.

ZEN Wifi ET9 has Firmware issues with FW 25265 Kernal; Can’t add zero mac! their latest version, and FW 25160 Google cameras don’t connect. FW 25215 is good. ASUS doesn’t have an easy way to report issues without spending a great deal of time going their CS hoops.

The setup was simple. Router needed to update to latest firmware out of the box. That was quick and easy as well. Had to use ChatGPT to tweak some of the functions and make it talk with all of my HomeKit accessories because they all operate on a 2.4ghz network. Once that was all configured, router works great! Great coverage and better than ever internet speed. The router that was supplied couldn’t handle my speed consistently and give optimal stability. This router might be overkill, but now my home ecosystem has room for expansion.

My ISP decided to make my range extenders obsolete with a firmware update and offered a monthly fee solution to provide new ones. Decided to take it out of their hands and just port forward their router to my own. Bought this kit and so far it works great. I am able to create 3 separate networks. One for stuff I don't want anything else to access, one for guests and one for all of our IOT devices. Love the web interface, made setup pretty easy. Get great signal throughout the house with just the two access points and it is faster than the router from the ISP by quite a bit. Definitely recommend it, will update if I encounter any issues.

This ET9 is very impressive compared to Linksys MR9000 + Linksys Extender (3rd floor). My setup: Large home, 3 floors, router in corner of basement and 2nd node 3rd floor. Using 6 Ghz as front/backhaul wireless. The 2 nodes are approx. 50-60 feet apart going through wood/ceramic floors, and standard walls. 2nd node has 2 bars vs the full 3, to middle of house on 3rd floor. I now get 300 Mbs anywhere in the home which is much faster the 60-90 Mbs I was getting on 3rd floor with Linksys Extender and front of house 3rd floor was getting 10-20 Mbs. What I didn't like at first is that it used the 2.4 Ghz bands even if I was close or far from the router (node 1). So here I thought its like other people claiming it doesn't go higher than 150 Mbs.....I turned off the 2.4 Ghz band completely and BINGO....got my ISP speed. So my 4 star is based on this. I would have expected the router figure out which is the faster band and then downgrade to 2.4 it couldn't connect to 5 or 6 Ghz. Test here was with my iphone 13. Other thing was I could not change my subnet to their default without using a standard web browser on a laptop. The firmware both devices upgraded just fine. The inital app setup on iOS didn't even list the ET9 router. I found this odd. Why would it list all the other new ones but not ET9. After selecting "other" then eventually it finds ET9 and shows the pretty picture of the router. Scary at first but you need patience with this for sure. Not recommended for your average non-IT person. This router has some super nice features and I still haven't played with all settings or even optimized it yet. Why brake something when its pushed my ISP speed and have zero issues, so far. So if you are like me that had a ~$150 router and kids/wife always complaining, get this Mesh. Like I said, very powerful antenna's in this little box. UPDATE: So the past 2 1/2 weeks I've been trying to fix this ET9 system as its dropping packets and has timeouts during ping sessions to Google for example. I've traded over 22 emails with Asus support, and about 5-8 different people saying, "Were sorry...blah blah..." and the problem is not fixed yet. I'm probably out of my return policy to Amazon now and stuck with 2 $600 bricks for door stops. They have no clue what the problem is. Smart Connect is crap, they asked I don't use it. Why not? I used it in my Linksys $100 router and no issues. Here we need to premium costs and told don't use that setting. Then why advertise it? If you have XBOX - same issues. It seems when you have a constant need for a connection it drops 10-15 seconds. There are like 30 parameters on the Wifi advanced page and you'd think they would advise on that. Maybe 1 of them are wrong. Worked fine for about 3 days, then...BANG!!! dopped connections...no changes, no power outages...Hate to say it, I think I need to go back to Linksys where although firmware is crap, at least their wifi technology is much better than Asus from my perspective.

easy set-up, great coverage. Only complaint is that the "shell" isn't nearly as stylish as my old Asus router that this replaced. Speed is a huge improvement, and no wifi loss or channel noise disruptions when the microwave is on! Love the auto-switch bw 2.4 & 5 band - ensuring best speed as available. And the print server feature now seems to accept my ancient USB laser printer! Could use another port or 2, but I solved that with a powered ethernet splitter to handle my various home automation hubs and everything seems to be working well.

Proporcionan una señal bastante fuerte a través de muros ,fue mu fácil de configurar y trae bastantes opciones de configuración, la mayoría inecesarias para una conexión casera. Desactive la opción de 160hz porque da problemas con el iPhone7pro , algo que no pasa con ningún otro Router. La banda 6 aún no se visualiza con dispositivos vendidos en México ,una pena, pero entre el sistema mesh si se conectan de esa forma.

Great unit. Was tricky to mesh with existing system

Easy to install and work really well with wifi speeds of 1400 mbps near the main router and at 900 mbps one floor below. The signal from the 2 routers does not reach places in the main floor of the house or the basement. I need a third router to send the wifi signal to thise areas. My house is 2500 sqft size. Buying a third router becomes an expensive business

There is a known ASUS ZenWiFi ET9 firmware limitation when: • ET9 is in Access Point (AP) mode • Used alongside another Wi-Fi 7 AP (ASUS GT-BE98) • With separate 6 GHz SSID • And wired backhaul In this state, ET9 will: • Advertise 6 GHz • Accept mesh control traffic • Reject client association silently • Produce “Unable to join SSID every time on apple devices Countless number of reconfigurations would not work this uncovered a real ET9 firmware edge problem There is no fix, the problem is architectural, not configurational. Product returned, not WIFI 6 useful as AP in WIFI 6 and 7 environment